“Siblings acting funny over money / I don’t owe you shit” —Cormega, Valuable Lessons
With election season underway, we now have less than a year and a half before Sheldon Adelson and the Koch Brothers select our next President. David and Charles Koch spent $412 million trying to put Mitt Romney in office in 2012, and they’re looking to spend more in 2016.
What most people don’t know is that the Koch Brothers are only half of the Koch brothers: the family tree also includes David’s twin, Bill), and an oldest sibling, Frederick. Wealth Genius, a crowd-sourced project to annotate the Wikipedia pages of American billionaires, recently began to highlight these two hidden members of America’s richest family.
Frederick collects art, and he is almost definitely gay. He’s also disinherited, and his less-than-a-billion-dollar fortune makes him the poorest Koch.
Bill’s a black sheep, too. He tried and failed to seize control of Koch Industries from Charles in 1980, igniting a feud that lasted for more than two decades. He only has $4 billion, but he makes up for it with an America’s Cup title and a collection of counterfeit wine.
